Peace requires mutual respect
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January 20, 2010
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1/20/2010
Accolades to Doug Bloomfield for identifying the Saudi monarchy as "one of the Arab world's greatest obstacles to peace" ("Who's the real spoiled child?" WJW, Jan. 7). We should be mindful, though, that intolerance and arrogance are endemic throughout the Arab world. Obviously, this has had, and continues to have, a profoundly adverse impact on Israel and the peace process.
Above all, peace requires respect for the fundamental human rights of all individuals. In this sense, thriving Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria are harbingers of peace -- "the canary in the coal mine," so to speak.
If the Palestinian Arab residents of this region accept and respect their Jewish neighbors, as Jews accept and respect the Arab citizens of Israel, there will be peace. But, as long as the Palestinians refuse to recognize the fundamental human rights of their Jewish neighbors, there will be no peace.
MARC CAROFF
President
Louis D. Brandeis District chapter
Zionist Organization of America
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